South Africa

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has vowed that there would be “hell to pay” if he were removed from the ANC. In an interview with Isolezwe on Monday, Gigaba said in isiZulu: “I grew up in the ANC. There is another young man that once insisted he would never leave …

Dan Plato has been elected as Cape Town’s new executive mayor during a special council sitting on Tuesday. Plato was elected by a majority, receiving 146 votes in council out of 208. The other nominees were Xolani Sotashi from the ANC, and the ACDP’s Grant Haskins, who received 53 and …

Two ministers and other parties fingered in the parliamentary inquiry into corruption at Eskom still had to be given the chance to respond to allegations in its draft report, sources said on Monday after the document was leaked. “It is quite sad that this was leaked because it could compromise …

A body of a man was found this morning in a farm dam along the R56 between Ixopo and Umzimkkulu in KwaZulu Natal. ER24 paramedics, along with the SAPS search and rescue, were called to the scene at 10h00 after a passer-by had spotted the body. On arrival, search and …

Civil rights organisation Afriforum has obtained a warrant to seize movable assets belonging to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and its leader Julius Malema to settle a debt. The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria granted the order to recover R337 758 in legal fees. The court had issued two …

The Democratic Alliance Western Cape provincial council has endorsed Dan Plato as mayor of the City of Cape Town, DA provincial leader Bonginkosi Madikizela said on Saturday. “Meeting in Worcester, the provincial council discussed and reflected on the DA’s 2019 election campaign. The provincial council was particularly united and satisfied …

Scores of sockpuppet accounts from India participated in an unprecedented disinformation campaign aimed at vindicating the beleaguered Gupta family. These accounts, which would later be colloquialized as the “Guptabots” consisted of hundreds of fake accounts masquerading as South Africans. Their goal was simple: divert the focus of social media discussions away …

KwaZulu-Natal police on Wednesday welcomed the life sentence imposed on a pensioner known as the “Kranskop rapist”. Thembinkosi Ngubane, 69, was convicted of raping a 19-year-old women more than two years ago while she was walking home from work. “Whilst she was walking with her colleague at Maliyavuza area, they …

Home Affairs is once more embroiled in a legal battle. On 21 September court papers were filed against the Minister and Director General for declaring a visa application by a Zimbabwean child fraudulent and banning him for five years from returning to South Africa. As a result of the department’s …

The young son of murdered lawyer Pete Mihalik is out of danger after he was wounded in an apparent hit on his father during the school run in Cape Town on Tuesday. “They are all fine,” Mihalik’s colleague, Bruce Hendricks, said on Wednesday. He said that was all he was …